Following the publication of its first White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, Inria unveils a second document, this time on autonomous and connected vehicles, in which it identifies and highlights all the issues surrounding the major advances and innovations in this field. What are the technological and scientific challenges, the economic, social and environmental issues, and the legal and ethical implications? This White Paper is a reference text that evaluates, questions and looks ahead.

A European consortium led by Inria and funded by the EU ICT H2020 program, TeamPlay aims at developing new techniques that will allow execution time, energy, security and other important non-functional properties of parallel software to be treated as first-class citizens. As Project Coordinator Olivier Zendra points out, this research is expected to have a significant impact on various sectors of the industry. Results will be evaluated through use cases from various domains such as computer vision, cybersecurity, satellites and drones.

The start-up Hikob, created in 2011 at Inria, has been bought by TagMaster, the leading manufacturer of advanced RFID products and traffic sensors and of ANPR cameras for vehicle identification in traffic and rail solutions.

A security research team based at Inria center, in Rennes, Brittany, France, Tamis recently partnered with American networking hardware giant Cisco Systems in a move meant to design an innovative method for uncovering malware at code execution.

As a major player in Europe's research ecosystem, Inria considered important to clarify its expectations with regard to FP9, the future framework programme to succeed H2020. The institute has therefore forwarded its proposals to the European Commission "to provide food for thought during the active phase of drawing up the next framework programme for research and innovation
".

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
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The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Hervé Mathieu, spearhead of the modernisation of Inria

Hervé Mathieu, deputy CEO of Inria from 1996 to 2004, and Inria chief executive officer for resources and service administration from 2006 to 2012, passed away on 16 November 2017.

An engineer from the engineering school École centrale Paris, Hervé Mathieu was first of all a researcher at the French Centre for Urban Planning Research: passionate about urban development models, he published several studies from the 1970s onwards on urban planning and the introduction of technologies in towns.

Continuing with these reflections, in 1981 he joined the French Ministry of Public Works as official representative, initially within the Urban Research Mission (MRU), then in the Forecasting unit of the Urban Planning department (GAP) where he worked on the implementation of incentive research programmes on avant-garde themes, in particular the link between energy issues and urban planning, but also the spatial implications of the reduction in working time.

In 1983 he became deputy permanent secretary of the 'Plan urbain' (an inter-ministerial research programme on towns), before performing managerial functions at the French civil engineering school École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

In 1996, Hervé Mathieu joined Inria, where he occupied the position of deputy CEO until 2004. Alongside Bernard Larrouturou, and together with Gilles Kahn and Laurent Kott, he participated actively in the definition of the project that led to the growth of Inria with, in particular, the creation of the three new centres in Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, and in the doubling of the institute's headcount in ten years.

Hervé Mathieu joined the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) at the beginning of 2005 as secretary-general and director of human resources.

He returned to Inria in November 2006 as chief executive officer for resources and service administration. He retired in 2012, the year he also received the Inria 'Grand Prix d'honneur' award.